Amis, Martin

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Amis, Martin

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Martin Amis is the quintessential postmodern writer. His Literary Fiction features dark storylines and ambiguous moral dilemmas that reflect the hollow bleakness of Western society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, though liberal doses of ironic humor and satire lighten the tone somewhat. His characters, though memorable, are rarely loveable or even likable. And of equal importance to the stories is the prose style: Amis uses experimental techniques, linguistic gymnastics, and sophisticated semantic structures in his novels and short stories. Start with: London Fields

Martin Amis is the quintessential postmodern writer. His Literary Fiction features dark storylines and ambiguous moral dilemmas that reflect the hollow bleakness of Western society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, though liberal doses of ironic humor and satire lighten the tone somewhat. His characters, though memorable, are rarely loveable or even likable. And of equal importance to the stories is the prose style: Amis uses experimental techniques, linguistic gymnastics, and sophisticated semantic structures in his novels and short stories. Start with: London Fields